Re: AW: [microblaze-uclinux] Low cost uClinux Microblaze platform(existenceor interest ??)

[John Williams <jwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Schunke Jan-Hendrik wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> I think the main problem is that you need the edk. Even if you can get the hardware for around $ 250 you still need the edk which is as far as I know another $995 dollar. You could probably generate a bitfile with a microblaze and probably distribute that but what if I need for example more timers or my own user peripheral? Even though I like the microblaze a lot I think that for a hobbyist an open source project like the openrisc1000 is probably a better choice (sorry to say so).
> Or do you see a chance that the microblaze will be freely available for non commercial applications?

There might be options for the EDK.  Insight sell the EDK/V2MB1000 board 
bundle for less than US$1000...

Given the alignment of version numbers now with ISE and EDK going to 6.1 
- I wonder if they are on the path to bundling the two anyway.  So maybe 
a webpack-like edition of EDK is a consideration.

Going further - note the EMAC eval core that comes with EDK times out 
after a few hours - a microblaze that does similarly would be very easy 
to do, and could be given away freely for evaluation purposes....

John


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